Contextualized Attention-based Knowledge Transfer for Spoken Conversational Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11066v4
• Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:32:18 GMT
• Title: Contextualized Attention-based Knowledge Transfer for Spoken Conversational Question Answering
• Authors: Chenyu You, Nuo Chen, Yuexian Zou
• Abstract summary: Spoken conversational question answering (SCQA) requires machines to model complex dialogue flow. We propose CADNet, a novel contextualized attention-based distillation approach. We conduct extensive experiments on the Spoken-CoQA dataset and demonstrate that our approach achieves remarkable performance.
• Score: 63.72278693825945
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• Abstract: Spoken conversational question answering (SCQA) requires machines to model complex dialogue flow given the speech utterances and text corpora. Different from traditional text question answering (QA) tasks, SCQA involves audio signal processing, passage comprehension, and contextual understanding. However, ASR systems introduce unexpected noisy signals to the transcriptions, which result in performance degradation on SCQA. To overcome the problem, we propose CADNet, a novel contextualized attention-based distillation approach, which applies both cross-attention and self-attention to obtain ASR-robust contextualized embedding representations of the passage and dialogue history for performance improvements. We also introduce the spoken conventional knowledge distillation framework to distill the ASR-robust knowledge from the estimated probabilities of the teacher model to the student. We conduct extensive experiments on the Spoken-CoQA dataset and demonstrate that our approach achieves remarkable performance in this task.

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